A look at the crypto real estate market, as a growing pool of investors seek safer assets, and its challenges, such as money laundering and gyrating valuations (Joanna S Kao/Financial Times)

Nigel Gladstone / Sydney Morning Herald:
A hacker leaks 5TB of data from the Colombian government, exposing the identities and methods of Australian Federal Police anti-narcotics agents  —  A massive leak of classified government documents has exposed the identities and methods of secret agents working to stop major drug importations to Australia.

Alexandra Muller / Bloomberg:
A wave of foreign buyers are planning to acquire fast-growing British tech companies, including Micro Focus, Avast, and Darktrace, thanks to a weakened pound  —  A wave of foreign buyers is coming after British technology companies, threatening to rob the UK market of what little exposure it still has to high-growth assets.

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
PayPal plans to add support for iPhone’s Tap to Pay feature in its PayPal and Venmo iOS apps “soon”, add Apple Pay to its checkout options, and more  —  The PayPal and Venmo iOS apps will soon offer Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone functionality, allowing merchants that use PayPal …

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners  —  The proposal will bring know-your-customer rules to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners.

Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu:
Paris-based Mytraffic, which offers location analytics tech to measure vehicle and footfall traffic, raised a €30M Series B, bringing its total funding to €45M  —  Insurance giant AXA is getting involved following a B-stage cheque for web analytics-grade digital intelligence for brick-and-mortar from Paris startup Mytraffic

Farah Nayeri / New York Times:
ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant  —  ICA Miami owns a few, and M.F.A. Boston and others are selling them to reach new audiences “in a world where Instagram and Siri are prevalent.”